My older brother Clifford wanted to be a scientist. He never got the chance: on a road just outside Prince Arthur, Saskatchewan, he was killed by a drunk driver. In Aboriginal culture, it is common ... Read More »
December 6, 2018
Picture books They Say Blue Jillian Tamaki Groundwood Books From the frameable book cover to colour-coded end pages, They Say Blue stands out. Caldecott Honor winner Jillian Tamaki explores a child’s view of the world through ... Read More »
December 3, 2018
French Exit Patrick DeWitt House of Anansi Press It’s hard to imagine a contemporary author more equipped to skewer high society than Patrick DeWitt. His exemplary wordplay, sly social commentary, dark humour, and skill with ... Read More »
November 29, 2018
Miriam Toews’s Women Talking (Knopf Canada), Rawi Hage’s Beirut Hellfire Society (Knopf Canada), Paige Cooper’s Zolitude (Biblioasis), and Larry Mathews’s An Exile’s Perfect Letter (Breakwater Books). These are the books I have devoured while on ... Read More »
November 26, 2018
Queen Solomon Tamara Faith Berger Coach House Books Designed by Ingrid Paulson The inspired partnership between novelist Tamara Faith Berger – one of the most boundary-pushing writers currently published by an established Canadian house – ... Read More »
November 26, 2018
Theory Dionne Brand Knopf Canada The Blue Clerk Dionne Brand McClelland & Stewart Numerous authors in 2018 experimented with form and genre in their work (Tanya Tagaq, Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Kathy Page), but only ... Read More »
November 26, 2018
Look at your bookshelves. Think of the imagined worlds in those books, of the adventures they have allowed you to experience on distant planets, in faraway lands, in the spaces between. In those stories, do ... Read More »
November 22, 2018
Perched on the edge of Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighbourhood sits White Dwarf Books, a favourite haunt of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fans. White Dwarf, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, was founded by ... Read More »
November 15, 2018
For a decade, Toronto’s ChiZine Publications has produced some of the country’s weirdest and most wonderful science fiction, fantasy, and horror. To celebrate the Toronto press’s 10th anniversary, co-publisher and owner Sandra Kasturi shares her ... Read More »
November 5, 2018
Chadwick Ginther sits on the cracked steps of a mausoleum in St. Mary’s Cemetery. The 43-year-old urban-fantasy novelist used to walk past this Winnipeg graveyard at 3 a.m. after a night out with friends, noting ... Read More »
November 5, 2018
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